DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 1715Z July 6, 2013
Alaska/Canada: Multiple wildfires located across Alaska and Canada continue to produce light to thick density smoke that has spread across the Canadian provinces into the Atlantic Ocean. An thin swath of moderately dense smoke was visible along the northern edge of the clouds from northeast British Columbia east-southeastward to southern Lake Huron. Further east, a large area of thick density smoke was detected in eastern Quebec, Newfoundland and Labrador, extending east and northeast into the Atlantic Ocean. All areas of remnant smoke will likely continue to push eastward across Canada. US: A large area of light remnant smoke was visible stretching from the southwestern US, northeastward towards the Great Lakes region and into Maine. The only areas of moderately dense smoke were those attached to the two wildfires in Nevada that continue to produce large amounts of smoke early this afternoon. -Vogt THIS TEXT PRODUCT IS PRIMARILY INTENDED TO DESCRIBE SIGNIFICANT AREAS OF SMOKE ASSOCIATED WITH ACTIVE FIRES AND SMOKE WHICH HAS BECOME DETACHED FROM THE FIRES AND DRIFTED SOME DISTANCE AWAY FROM THE SOURCE FIRE..TYPICALLY OVER THE COURSE OF ONE OR MORE DAYS. AREAS OF BLOWING DUST ARE ALSO DESCRIBED. USERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO VIEW A GRAPHIC DEPICTION OF THESE AND OTHER PLUMES WHICH ARE LESS EXTENSIVE AND STILL ATTACHED TO THE SOURCE FIRE IN VARIOUS GRAPHIC FORMATS ON OUR WEB SITE: JPEG: http://www.osdpd.noaa.gov/ml/land/hms.html GIS: http://www.firedetect.noaa.gov/viewer.htm KML: http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/FIRE/kml.html ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS REGARDING THIS PRODUCT SHOULD BE SENT TO SSDFireTeam@noaa.gov